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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-01-25, Page 4PAGE FOUR THE SEAFORTH NEWS THE SEAFORTH NEWS Snowdon Bn.:'. Putditaer-. WALTON The Guild and W.A. of St. Gem e•s Church, \Walton, held their dist meet ting of the year at the horse of Mrs. Hoy on Weduesday last. There was a real good turn out for the day. A wonderful display of patches and goods for quilts came in, so the ladies are away to a good start for the coming year. Meeting closed with God Save the King. The U.F.W.O. meeting was held on Wednesday, Jan. lith, at the house of Mrs. Kirkby. 'Minutes of last meeting were read and adopted. The February meeting will be held at Mre. A. Coutts. Excellent reports of the silver jubilee farmers' convention were read by Mrs. Coutts and Mrs.1 W. Turnbull. Program committee are Mrs. A. McCall, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Campbell Mrs. Turnbull read a fine paper on "How the busy mother can so budget her time that she gets the most out of it for herself and her funtity." Those who were not at this meeting missed some very good. things. A dainty lunch was served at the close. BAYFIELD Bayfield Agricultural Society an- nual meeting was held when the fol- lowing officers and directors were ap- pointed for 1940: President, William Sparks; vice presidents, Fred Middle- ton, Bert Dunn; treasurer, James H. Reid; secretary, A. E. Erwin; board of directors. Ed. Foster, Frank Kee- gan, William It. Stephenson, W. W. Wise. A. H. Warner, Mrs. E. Foster, Murray Grainger, Carl Diehl. Mrs. George Little. Dlrs. Fred McEwen, Mrs. Russell Grainger, John Howard. Robert Penhale, Harold Stinson, Rus- sell Grainger; honorary directors. D. H. McNaughton, Thomas M. Suow- den, T. M. Woods, Mrs, Fred Middle- ton, Mrs. Thomas M. Snowden, Mrs. M. F. Woods; auditors. E. A. Feath- erston and John Cameron, On Monday last the annual meeting ing of the. Bayfield Public Library was held in the library. The follow- ing officers were appointed for 1940: Chairman, Rev. R. M. Gale; members of board, Mrs. Metcalf, Mrs. R. Scotch - mere. Mrs. Bassett, Mrs. Bailey, Miss 7. Sterling. Mrs. W. Ferguson, Miss L. Woods. Miss Fowlie, librarian. There was no service in the Pres- byterian or United Church on Sun- day owing to the condition of the roads. Mesers..T. and W. Robertson closed their food shop for the winter months and are Rwiiy. to Florida for a vaca- tion. Mrs, Mason of Detroit is visiting her aunt, Mrs. G. Castle, Sr. Miss DI. Castle is seriously 111 in Viotoria Hospital, London. ELIM V ILLE Despite the stormy weather and heavy roads mi Wednesday night last. there was a good turn out at th. W.M.S. pot luck supper held in 111.. b,lsr meui of the church. This was their auuaal soetal evening when the ti,shtiard- were invited. Nineteen nr@ii.ers were present and about... 35 td11. Appetizing viands of all kinds, exc.-pt breath were spread on the :--a ,;es and ale did ju tier- to the meal. After the tables were cleared and dishes wu1511•'11 a short iii 'criII was Veal. Owing to the absence of the or. shield. Mrs. Ralph Batten, the vice president Mrs. Ford took charge, and opened with singing "All hail the Power of Jesus' Name." and all re- peated the Lord's prayer in unison. Ma's. Wi11 Elford read Psalm 5 'for the Scripture lesson. Minutes of last meeting were read and adopted and reit nailed. "Sound the Battle Cry," ;vas sung and business session fol- lowed. The meeting closed with sing- ing "We have heard the Joyful 13eund," and prayer by Rev. Mair. A debate entitled, "Resolved that Mag- gic's Treatment of Jiggs is justi5- ah1;-," was given by Mrs. Pooley and dirs. \:Veil Skinner for the affirmative side. attrl Rev. Mair and Mr. Alvin Wynn Inc the negative side. Some very interesting points were brought out atttl proved very amusing. The judges were Misses Mnr'ulloc•.h and McOugae ;.hid \ti .,euton (Trask,. They gave their decision in furor of the affirma- tive .side. :While the judges were marking their decision a sing -snag was enjoyed, led by Mrs.:\'ib Batten tent/Mr. W. Elford. Mrs. Pooley also gave a reading, "Wanted, a Minister's Wife." The gathering dispersed at an early hour after a, very enjoyable time together. The teacher noticed the small boy scribbling in an arithmetic class. The leacher looked down to ecu what the bov was writing _ and a moat extra- ordinary' rigmarole met his eyes. "Blow, suck, blow, blow, suck, suck, suck, blow." ran the wortls, "Whatis that nonsense?" said the teaches, sternly.. "Ob, air, it's not nonsense," said the boy, aggrieved. "It's mouth organ music for 'God Save the King,!'" DUBLIN Ale and Mrs. Wall. smith have re- turned to their Name ill Dail 11014; rat ter spending a pleasant week with his two brothers, Messrs. Frank stud. Gar. South. ?\Ir. John Morris of Hamilton was visiting friends here: Mr. Bob Murray and two sisters Birdie and Mildred were guests of Stratford friends, Mr. Walter Iilinkhanter returned to Detroit on Monday. Miss Mary McFarlane of Youngs- town, Ohio, called on some of her friends during the week. Mary thinks our village has grown and shows a lot of improvement since she was here 28 years ago. The Ladies' Guild are holding their Monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Mathers this Thursday. Everybody welcome. Sorry to report that Mr. M. J. Klinkhatner is ill in the Stratford General Hospital. We wish him a speedy recovery. Miss Genevieve Feeney has returned to Port Hope after two weeks at tate home of her mother. Mr. Wnt. J. Kay. reeve of Hibbert, attended the county council sessions in Stratford. We are pleased to report that Mrs. John Carpenter is improving after her recent illness. BRUCEFIELD Miss al, Swan is visiting her bro- ther and fancily in Hamilton. Dins. Wm. Smith of Exeter spent a few days with her sister. Mrs. A. Rohner. Mrs. Mary Mckenzie returned home last week front visiting friends in De- troit. The Horticultural Society will hold their annual meeting on Feb. 1st. The Red Cross Society will hold their regular meeting ou Feb. 1st in Odd Fellows Hall. Owing to the blocked roads and storm there were no services in the United Church on Sunday. WINTHROP The telephone meeting was post- poned, as the roads were alt blocked to traffic. The meeting will be held nest Monday, January 29th. We have had a real winter the past 3 weeks, very heavy snow falls, high winds and below zero weather. The snow banks are 7 feet or more in places. The snow plows started work on Monday and will soon have the roads back to normal in a few days. CROMARTY Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace enter- tained a number of their friends re- cently in honor of Isabel Drake of Staffa who is going into training for a nurse in St. Mary's Hospital of Kitchener. Reggie Stagg has returned to his (tome here after spending a few days with his father at the home of Mr. and Airs. A. W. Norris. Miss Betty McKellar spent a few days with friends at Staffa. Public sr•ltool classes have been re- sumed with a good attendance in the hasemi'ut of ('t'omarty ('Murch. MANLEY The tate snow storm has left the impression that an old time winter doesn't take, long to snake its appear- ance. We are still busy digging our- selves out. but once the zero weather has moderated the roads are being opened up. While the modern speed limit hue been reduced to normal with the horsepower. many of the church attendances were email last `'un'Lty anti many of the stinal pnittl,< v. en, not;Ails to int in their api*arnu,'.. tl.• beginning of the Week, Th. order of the day of late has beim hard on hogs to provide bacon, ham and sausage for another season, to cute meat without the refrigerator process. CHISELHURST Owing to the condition of the roads and the weather there has been no church service this last two weeks, Mr. Edgar Cudmore, who has been confined to his bed with the jaundice, is able to he out again. Miss Betty Wright, who spent a few weeks with Dir. and Mr's. Kercher returned last week to her home in Detroit. The Y. P. meeting for this week will he postponed. KIPPEN The annual meeting of St. Artd- rew's Church bus been postponed until Friday, February 2nd, at 2 p.nt. Mr. Arthur Field and Mr. Essery of Centralia spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Enlutersml Anderson. Mr. Ibbotson of Owen Sound visit- ed over the week end with Mr. Wm. Ivison. Hiss Olive Caldwell has returned to her home in Exeter after spending two weeks with Mrs. Percy Sales. Mr. Robt. Crandall of Clinton spent the week end with D1r, and .Mrs. E. Butt. Mr. John M,Murtrie has returned to his home from a visit with relat- ives in Toronto and we are pleased to hear he is recovering from his re- cent Mess. Dir. Stewart Baird of London spent the week end with friends at Kippen. Mr. Robt. Jarrott spent a day in Hamilton last week visiting his daughter Mrs. W. R. Cook who is -ser- iously ill in the hospital there. The kipper East W.I. euchre and dance has been postponed to Jan. 30. Miss Audrey Cochrane entertained a number of her friends to a progres- sive euchre party recently, Prizes were won by Miss Mary Farquhar, ladies' first; gents' first, Alex, Me - Beath; ladies' consolation, Miss Gladys Jarrott; gents' consolation, Mr, Eric Sweitzer. After the Prizes were given Miss Audrey invited her guests to the dining room where a delicious lunch was served, After lunch games and contests, were play- ed. Then everyone thanking Audrey for the very pleaeaut evening, left for their homes. MODERN WHALING Whaling, which began • with the Vikings, was known to the North American Indian (who probably learned its methods front the Green- lander). and was brought to a ^high degree of efficiency by the Basques of the twelfth century, once more oc- cupies the forefront of national atten- tion. In the sixteenth century Holl- and entered the field, and shortly thereafter England; today every c,entry of any pretensionto national power is investing enormous sums in the fleets and machinery with which the modern tvltaling expedition must it, equipped in order to compete in t'.d waters of the North anti South Pole, for the coveted game. In a day ellen the manufacture of arms has retched hitherto undreamed-of pro- .tortious, the demand for fat and oil has caused the whale to take on the glittering allure of a deep deposit of gold ore, for the whale's blubber yields fats and oil in enormous quan- it;e., out, sperm whale. for instance, of the ordinary fall -grow II .11c, b,•ino; i tall - :tod,fo ,meth . o around 'III: barrels of oil. :\t the present time. there are from 30,000 to 4(000 of these leviathans killed per amnia, which fart explains the classification of whale-huntinu as a major industry in the set -Cup of modern stations. Always a dangerous undertaking', the capture of a whale is today far less dependent on man's skill, since scientific improvement in the equip- ment has greatly lessened most of the hazards. :1 whale is sighted when it comes to the •surface to breathe: the huge ,geyster which appears and can be seen for miles is not water. as so many think, hitt air laden with car- bonic arid, which the whale is dis- charging front its lungs in order to make roost for more oxygen. In a few seconds. he has plunged- down again, and may take anywhere front 10 to -'5 minutes to reappear. but he always does reappear, and it is in this interval that the killer -boat atan- -oet:wre• around to within target - range. The unpredictability- of the whale's- movements whalesmovements in the nnoments following t'u• first '!hit" still it 0.0tute the most dangerous aspect of modern w-hale- lutnting, hitt the odds have been turned in favor of man by the present lay harpoon. which is shot .from -a small cannon, and carries its spear - like head into the lmtgs and heart of the mammoth fish, where the time- bomb attached to. the .head explodes its charge of black shrapnel. and at tire- same time reieases barbs which open anti, imbedded in the flesh of the whale, 'forst a hook which holds the 'harpoon firmly in the victim's body. This is the harpoon in general use today and it was developed to its present stage of technical excellence by the Norwegian, Sven. Foyne. How- ever, there is alt even more humane method which in origin goes back to the year 1882, 'but is just now coming into wider use. It consists of an elec- trical current inducted into the cable of the harpoon. and connected with the metal spearhead. When the whale is hit, the contact with the ship completes the circuit, the waster acting as a conductor. In this way the greatest whale can be killed by means of a relatively low current of from 80 to 1+10 volts. This is due to the fact that the body of the whale as well as the sea -water are excellent conductors and the large surfaces of the animal's skin offer little resistance to currents of great intensity. Like the bomb - harpoons, electrical harpoons are fired from cannons. No matter what the weapon, the whale so penetrated makes heroic efforts to escape, and its Olympian struggle against death would be a moving spectacle to the most harden- ed, were it not that man is immune to pity when his selfish interests are in- volved. After the first violent convul- sions, further harpoons, if necessary, are shot into the whale's body, and soon hemorrhage begins. The whale, life extinct, now sinks to the bottom, ai that it is necessary to insert a per- forated steel tube through which the carcass is filled with compressed air in order to enable it to float indefinite• ly. The flotilla flag is then jabbed into its back. and the killer -boat is off in search of additional prey There was "a time when each 'catch had to he towed to a land -station, there to he stripped of its blubber and oil. Today a killer -boat gathers about three whales hi a period of some hours, then goes back to the another - ship, which is a floating factory in it- self, the stern of it a ramp upon which the whale is -pulled by steam winches. A VICTORIA. JANUARY IDYLL Vancouver Island's reputation. as Canada's Evergreen Playground is upheld by this idyllic scene photographed January 6th at Victoria, RC. The lamb Is a real one, only six days old. It was born January 1 an the farm of E. J. T, Woodward, near Victoria. The pretty little lady is Sally, two -and - a -half -year-old daughter and only child of Commander R. A. ("Tony") Wright, R.C.N., and Mrs. Wright, Esquimalt. The flowers were picked in the gardens of the Empress Hotel. Canadians and Americans are visiting Victoria in large numbers this winter, tiie•ideal weather permitting them ito enjoy winter golf, tennis, fishing, riding and hiking under splendid conditional, EG THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940 T 'THEATRE Seaforth NOW PLAYING Deanna Durbin Robert Stack "First Love" Mon., Tues., Wed. SONJA TYRONIF lyHENIE-POWER Oteisib GOND FIDDLE RUDY VALLEE EDNA MAY OLIVER /\ MARY HEALY a LYLE TALBOT t ALAN RINEHART A20'lConlury-Fox Pak. Next Thur. Fri. Sat. Edith Fellows Clarence Kolb "Five Little Peppers" Dorothy Peterson Ronald Sinclair Tltey haven't much money but they have lots of fun. ALSO Charles Bickford Jean Parker Romance of The Redwoods The story of a ratan tr110 returned good for evil Coming — GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS Once on hoard. the gigantic utas, is, within the short :pact of two hours, completely reduced to its commercial- ly ont r,'ial-ly valuable product.. Ina flotilla the killer -boats number seven, the hoot boats two. LI tha dismembering of the enor- mous fish, men dressed in high hoots, gloves, Aniline: of leather or moisture proof cloth, clamber 'tp rite tt'etnen- dous mountain: ,i flv.h ve;icii. Sitter• the .water -beast is laid .rpen. ,resent the appearance of a glistening elastic wall, allowing tto foot or hand -hold. \With a sort of pruning -hook at the end of a long stick the fatty tis -u". standing taller than Inc• height of a titan, is divided off int,, huge 'docks which look tike rocks of trembling jelly-. The squares of tat are set slipping along into black holes on the deck, which mark the opening of the boiling cauldrons below, where tate fat is transmuted into the carious grades of oil by dint of boiling and reboiling. 'Whale -bone oil is made frau the ground bones of tett.aninial. In the entrails is sought that jellied marble. weighing anywhere from a 'tali -,•once to 100 pounds or more, which :s tin ambergris that, while ex•.tdiitg at, n11 - pleasant odor itself, serves its the base of milady's costly pe v.ncs. Front the re.idue of the. heat a tit obtained; the hones, •because of their x risfty, are used cotnnter tart :is Eters, and the cartila-ge .of the tail and fins yield a valuable ,glue, 'rite tics's of the young whale is used as meat. The "floating" oif the whale -fact- ory, with the resultant independence of the fleet from the necessity of bringing its booty into land -stations for its preparation for markets, has made it possible to penetrate farther and farther into the very remotest haunts of the whale. with the causes quence, of course, that at the- present pace of the kill. it will not be very long before there will be no whales to hunt. It is the old story of utas killing the goose egg. Already the large, full-grown whale whose Iv -eight might approxi - Mate 200 tons. is rare. At the annual conference- ealled to prevent the inuniutcut extinction of this source of riches, there are resolu- tions passed which forbid the filling of a -tion whale w Bich is tender 6(1 feet, 'ir of a blue whale under 40 feet, or of any whale weighing less than 50 hits. - or of cow -+choles . with- their young 111 tow, et Cetera. Manny t'esolu 11ons are passed, few observed, for the enforcement of such rules is dilTi- cuh in 0 game where the field of sport spreads over the great seas of the north Rad .ouch, and the "hag" is incredibly rich in the prices it yields. Want and For :are Ads, t1 week 25c THE JACKSON STUDIO Excellent Portraits at the Right Price Come in and make an appointment 4 S(O'V 'S CONTAINS MITAMINS A R. R. MCKINDSEY, PHM.B. Druggist THE NYAL STORE hat laid the goldetr PHONE 111, SEAFORTH SCOUT --- GUIDE ONCERT Cardno's Hall, Seaforth. 8 P.M. Friday, Feb. 2nd The Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Cubs and Brownies will each entertain with stunts, assisted by local talent and the following outstanding London artists: IRES AGNIFICENT AGICIAN THAUM.ATURGIST ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL MYSTE IES SONNY BRETHERTON Piano Accordian DIRECT FROM MAJOR BOWES' LONDON SPONSORED PROGRAM IN NEW YORK ENA GOODING TAP DANCER EXTRAORDINARY Admission: Adults 35c. Children 15c Reserved Seats 45c ' Plan opens at McTCindeey's Drug Store, Saturday, .ran. 27th, tit 10A.M.